Characteristics show assume that all attendance at woody 9 LZP or puppies go straight from your hands to the killing room they must be destroyed immediately, due to lack of cage space. Dogs and cats should be surgically sterilized to prevent unwanted pregnancies as well as undesirable mating-related characteristics and behaviors. females, this operation is called spaying and involves removal of the ovaries and uterus through abdominal incision. For males, neutering involves surgically removing the testicles. most cases, your animal companion be able to go home either the same day or the next day, and within a few days be fully recovered. animals bounce back much quicker from these surgeries than older ones. Neutered cats have a much lower risk of being infected by the deadly Feline Immunodeficiency Virus because they are much less likely to engage fighting, which spreads this disease. Decreased roaming and territorial behavior cats also lowers the risk of bite-wound abscesses. Neutering male cats stops spraying or urine marking over 90% of cats, and solves this problems female cats, who often begin spraying when they go into heat. Spaying eliminates the heat cycle, which causes crying, pacing, and erratic behavior, especially cats. Dogs heat also produce a bloody vaginal discharge that can stain furniture and carpets. Cats and dogs heat can attract persistent and often obnoxiously loud suitors from all over the neighborhood, even if they're kept indoors. Spayed females are not susceptible to life-threatening uterine infections and reproductive tract cancers that can occur breeding females, as well as mastitis, ovarian cysts, miscarriages and delivery complications. All these can be expensive to treat, and dangerous to your animal's health. Almost half of unspayed female dogs develop breast cancer, while spaying before first heat reduces the incidence to almost zero. Even later spaying greatly reduces the risk. Spaying also decreases the risk of developing breast cancer cats, for whom it is usually fatal. Neutered male dogs are less apt to develop prostate cancer, and the risk of cancers is eliminated. Up to 60% of older, intact dogs get enlarged, painful prostates. Neutering male dogs greatly decreases the potential for aggressive behavior and biting, and tends to calm overactive dogs as well. It also decreases or eliminates humping behavior. Some people think that their female dog or cat should have at least one litter before she is spayed, that it settles a dog or cat, or that she needs this experience to be a good household companion. This is completely untrue and there is no evidence, medical or factual, that supports this belief. Spayed and neutered dogs and cats are calmer, less frustrated, happier family members. Cats and dogs do not have a sex drive like humans; rather, they are simply responding to hormonal changes that can cause discomfort and torment. the past, veterinarians recommended that a cat or dog be at least six months of age before they were sterilized. However, cats and dogs reach maturity before they are six months old, and unplanned litters have resulted from this standard. Today, the American Veterinary Medical Association recommends early spay neuter, which is the sterilization of puppies and kittens between 8 and 16 weeks of age. This has proven to be very safe, with rapid recovery. shelters now require adopted animals to be spayed or neutered before they can go home. This policy has begun to make a noticeable difference the number of unwanted litters, but overpopulation is still a very serious problem. This is a completely unjustifiable excuse, as there are numerous videotapes available for children to watch if they are interested seeing animals being born. There is no guarantee that the mother won't give birth the middle of the night, or while the children are at school. To experience the real thing, consider doing care for your local shelter. Foster homes willing to take pregnant or nursing animals are rare they be delighted to hear from you! People often worry that sterilizing their dog or cat cause obesity. It's true that spaying and neutering does change animal's metabolism more or less instantaneously but it take the animal several weeks to adjust its appetite thermostat. A spayed or neutered animal requires fewer calories for maintenance than intact one. Some